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Chapter 1: Who is Sarah Sherman and what is her background?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We are very excited about our guest today. It is Sarah Sherman. Sarah is a current cast member on Saturday Night Live, and we could consider her a vet. She has just finished her fifth season. And I just want to file this one under not safe for work or for kids, because we do get into some...
fun and down and dirty topics like, well, SNL, duh, and psychoanalysis and Long Island and her insane, wildly original new special, Sarah Squirm, live and in the flesh on HBO. So, um, listen for Sarah, but, but before we start, right, we always like to talk to somebody who knows our guests, who, um, who has spent time with them and who can speak well and give us a question.
And, uh, we're going to talk today to Mitra Juhari. Mitra is an amazing actress, writer, producer. You may know her, uh, from episodes of the bear from the show she created three busy Debra's. Um, she's a writer on, um, Big mouth. And she's just incredible talent. Came up with Sarah, her good friend. We're going to check in with Mitra, who is on her lunch break and get a question from her.
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Chapter 2: What are Sarah's thoughts on the 'Human Centipede' movie?
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She's on the set.
Mitra is on the set. Mitra, where are we talking to you from?
Netflix.
A lot of people don't know that Netflix has beautiful offices. Really, really.
They give you a free hanger. So. Incredible. You can hang anything on that. You can hang anything on that as long as it's not pants because the hanger is broken. I hear giggles in the back. I wish I was in there.
On top of Mitra being incredibly talented, she's also like a real deal activist, boots on the ground person. And I was thinking about during COVID when you, when you zoomed with my sons to talk to them about the LA unhoused situation and what they could do about it. It was...
They were so cute and sweet. I loved talking to them. They were so thoughtful and had such good questions and were really making me laugh.
Remember that when we were all just like in that COVID bubble of just like, I guess we, I guess this is how we'll learn now.
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Chapter 3: How did Sarah's childhood influence her career in comedy?
Patty Harrison, another hilarious comedian and actor. Okay. We've got Sarah coming in today. That's why I'm sad. Another reason why I'm sad I'm not there. I want to be seeing her. I have so many questions for Sarah. Did you watch her special? Yes.
I have questions for her too. Her nasty ass.
Her nasty ass special. You have known Sarah for a very long time. When did you two first meet?
2015. And our mutual friend, Drennan, who knew her from Chicago, she was coming out to New York to do shows. And she guested on this show called Holy Fuck that I was a part of. And he was like, there's this freak coming named Sarah Sherman. And I think you guys would really like each other. And then we like hit it off immediately. And we went on a,
tour with this great comedian writer named jamie loft is called the sarah metron jamie or ugly tour um and just like she eventually wrote and appeared butt naked on deborah yeah so we we worked on a show together three busy deborahs on adult swim that you wrote and produced and you were the star of along with other deborahs sandy and elisa
That's right. And Sarah was a writer on there, which is where I first heard her. And I was introduced to her as Sarah Squirm, which is the name she was going by at the time, which I remember thinking at the time it was unusual that a comic actor had like what felt like almost like a rock star name.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Sarah's performance style?
Yes. And it makes so much sense because like she came up in these great music venues and like was like, I feel like every time I would come to Chicago and do shows with her at The Hideout, it was always with these really interesting bands that I've never heard of, would never have heard of. And she's such a true fan of live music and worked in radio and just brings all of that.
So it makes sense to me that this person who's working in these DIY spaces, both in music and stand-up and art, would have this sort of rocker character persona.
Totally. My questions today for her are really like, when did that person start? When does that person come out? Because you know Sarah really well, and I've gotten to know her from getting to work with her, and her persona and her personality are like... alike, but also very different.
Yeah. She's like, I feel like it makes so much sense that she landed in Chicago because she does have this like warmth and like, I don't know, familiarity with people that feels very Midwestern to me, even though she's not from there, but like, she's just very cozy. People feel very comfortable with her.
Um, which you wouldn't expect from someone who's like material is kind of exclusively about like her flapping labia. Yeah.
like for people that are learning about sarah here like her stuff on snl is you know in the structure of snl but sarah's material is like super scatological she calls it body horror it's like a ton of like dysmorphia on dysmorphia shocking shocking shocking stuff and um i want to ask sarah like the cutaways to her audience during the special i'm like who is this audience
I have the same exact thoughts.
So many men laughing and being ritually humiliated at the same time. It's amazing. Perverts. God, my favorite word. My favorite word. Would you say Sarah's your first pervert guest? Oh, absolutely not. No, but I love a pervert.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Sarah face while auditioning for SNL?
I don't like a creep. There's a difference. Big time. And it's a fine line. I mean, you know, and it's very, it happens. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying, but rarely are women creeps, but they can definitely be perverts. But if you're a perverted man, you have a high creep susceptibility, obviously. You got to be really careful. You got to be really careful.
But a fun pervert, I mean, they kind of feel almost, you know, this is another thing that I want to talk to Sarah about is, like, the way she is a fun pervert and then turns on her audience and yells at them for liking it.
It's so real. Well, because it's, like, it's such a relief to have someone, obviously in such a heightened way, but, like, talk about all these things that, like, I also am like horrified by in my own body where I'm like, why does it do that? Why is there hair there? What is that substance?
Having someone put words to it and show it in like such a, like it is so heightened, but it's also like how I feel looking at like these parts of me. And she really brings it to life in a way that is actually very inviting, I feel, where it's like, I'm disgusting. Aren't you disgusting? We're all disgusting. No, you're the disgusting one.
way to sum it up in watching her stuff I'm like on on the surface level it's kind of like grotesque almost performance art stuff but then underneath it is like this idea of claiming the stuff that gets thrown at us all the time anyway, just kind of claiming it and like doubling down on it. Yes. The horrors of being a woman and having a body.
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Chapter 6: How does Sarah describe her experiences on SNL?
So I always ask people to give my guest a question. What do you think Sarah would want to talk about, answer, small or big, any story you want to prompt her to tell or anything you don't know about her yet? Okay. I wrote down a few.
Oh, you're such a writer.
I really overthought it. Why don't we get the room in here? Let's get the room in here and let's just keep pitching. Yeah, I got together about 30,000 of my favorite writers to put together a few questions for Sarah. Okay.
I wanted to force her to talk about her child musical theater career because she was really, she has so many stories about like liberties she took with the characters that she was given.
Amazing.
Thank you. That's great. Okay, I had two like bigger questions. If you had a zillion dollars to make any disgusting practical creation, what would it be? Whoa, great question. We might have to ask all these questions. These are good. And then what is your biggest bomb and what's your favorite show that you've done? So it's like a, you know, best and worst.
Because I feel like Sarah's had some like really high highs and some really low lows. So I think either of those I would be really excited to hear about. Great question. And then if there's time, where does she stand on The Real Housewives of Rhode Island?
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Chapter 7: What unique elements are featured in Sarah's comedy special?
You know, if you're like hitting a wall conversationally.
Okay, perfect. I can't wait to ask her these questions. Really good questions, Mitra.
Thank you.
Thanks for talking to us on your lunch break. I loved every second. Okay, bye. Thanks, Mitra. Thanks so much. Bye. Bye, honey.
Bye.
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And this is the food wall.
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Chapter 8: How does Sarah discuss her relationship with her parents and their support?
I should have, I'm going to kill myself. I should have brought a little food for the wall.
It's okay. You don't need to bring it.
I don't want that to be. I don't want to bring food for the wall.
I didn't want people to feel like they needed to bring.
I could, not to brag, I could have contributed to this like crazy.
I can only imagine what you would have contributed to this. It's so amazing. I actually, before we start, I wore these on behalf of you because I feel like you would like them. I wore cheeseburger sneakers.
Those should be on the food wall.
All right, we'll put one on the wall. What is... Let me touch this. It's a cheeseburger sneaker from... It's Dolls Kill.
It's Dolls Kill.
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